STATEMENT OF HIS EMINENCE, EDWARD CARDINAL EGAN CONCERNING REMARKS MADE BY THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Like many other citizens of this nation, I was shocked to learn that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America would make the kind of statements that were made to Mr. Tom Brokaw of NBC-TV on Sunday, August 24, 2008. What the Speaker had to say about theologians and their positions regarding abortion was not only misinformed; it was also, and especially, utterly incredible in this day and age.

We are blessed in the 21st century with crystal-clear photographs and action films of the living realities within their pregnant mothers. No one with the slightest measure of integrity or honor could fail to know what these marvelous beings manifestly, clearly, and obviously are, as they smile and wave into the world outside the womb. In simplest terms, they are human beings with an inalienable right to live, a right that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is bound to defend at all costs for the most basic of ethical reasons. They are not parts of their mothers, and what they are depends not at all upon the opinions of theologians of any faith. Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being “chooses” to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.

Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being chooses to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.

I am pleasantly surprised by Card. Egan's direct and impassioned response. Now, if only Abp. Niederauer would grow a pair ...

Thank you Cardinal Egan for this clearly worded rebuke of the garbage spouted by Speaker Pelosi.

The best way to change her status as Speaker of the House is to make sure that she doesn’t have a majority on her side in November. The loons in San Fran will keep electing her because she is following their far far left politics. That stuff doesn’t play in the rest of the country.

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posted on 08/26/2008 11:16:47 AM PDT
by kevinm13
(The Main Stream Media is dead! "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)

Wow! Wow! Wow! is right. Cardinal Egan just hits it out of the park. These words will echo from now to November:

"In simplest terms, they are human beings with an inalienable right to live, a right that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is bound to defend at all costs for the most basic of ethical reasons. They are not parts of their mothers, and what they are depends not at all upon the opinions of theologians of any faith. Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being chooses to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name."

“Pope Benedict is going to hear about this if he hasn’t. He cares. He’s the pope. He cares about the Catholic Church. The most powerful woman in the United States of America has just lied about his church. Something has to happen here at some point. I don’t know what. I don’t know what steps publicly the Catholic Church takes in a situation like this. But the first thing that is going to happen is, American Catholics are going to hear about it on this program...”

She set her self up as a spokesperson for the Catholic Church on a national news show. She had to know what was coming.

A HUGE mistake, and the consequences are just beginning, I hope.

It's one thing to spout pro-abortion views and claim to be Catholic, but when she tried to make herself the pope on national television and redefine perennial Church teaching, she went a million steps too far.

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